Privacy Policy

Your right to privacy is very important. St John the Baptist, Capel (referred to below as “we” or “us”) recognise that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act in a responsible manner. We believe this information should only be used to help us provide you with a better service. That’s why we have put a policy in place to protect your personal information.

By using this website, you give your consent that all personal data you submit may be processed in the manner and for the purposes described below.

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the Act”), the data controller is St John the Baptist, The Street, Capel, Surrey RH5

1) What personal information do we collect?
We may collect and process the following data about You:

When you contact us through the web site you consent to us storing your details (Name, telephone nrs, address and email).
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
Other information to help us provide you with improved services

2) How we may use your information
We use information about you in the following ways:

To help us identify you and any accounts or list subscriptions you hold with us

To enable us to review, develop and improve the website and our services

To carry out statistical analysis

To notify you about changes to our website and services

To provide you with information about what we do or future events which we feel may interest you where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.

3) With whom is the information shared?
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of St John the Baptist, Capel, our parishioners, congregation, visitors or others. This includes but is not limited to exchanging information with other organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and dispute policies.

4) Use of cookies
The St John the Baptist, Capel web site uses cookies for various reasons, for example, cookies enable us to track information during the subscription registration or donation process. These cookies do not track individual information. Cookies from our site can only be read by us and our hosting service provider Biels Consultancy. Our cookie policy is based on ‘implied consent’, i.e. that by using our website you consent to cookies being set on your computer. The box that appears at the bottom of our website inform you of this. If you do not agree to this you must leave our website and clear your internet browser’s cache from our cookies.
For more information on implied consent refer to the ICO website: cookie guidance

If you do nothing other than read pages or download information while using this web site, we will capture and store information about your visit. This information will not identify you; it relates to:

the Internet domain (e.g. www.company.co.uk) and IP address from which you access the web site
the type of browser and operating system (Windows, UNIX, iOS) you use
the date and time of your visit
the pages you visit
the address of the web site from which you linked to us (if applicable).
We use this information to make each visit more rewarding, and to provide us with information to help improve our service. We do not know (and do not want to know) the identities of people who visit us in this way.

For further information about cookies, you may like to visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

5) Where we store your Personal Data
All information you provide to us is stored on our secured servers, located in the United Kingdom. We will not transfer your data outside of the EU without your consent.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping the password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

6) Links
The St John the Baptist, Capel web site may provide links to third party sites. Since we do not control those websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third party sites. Any information You supply on such sites will not be within our control.

7) How can you update the personal information you have provided to us?

You can help us maintain the accuracy of your information by notifying us of any changes to your address, title, phone number or e-mail address. You can do this by completing the ‘Contact Us’ form on the website.

The personal information we collect and maintain will be subject to the version of the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of collection. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time and will provide notice of these changes on the Privacy Policy on this page. You should make sure you periodically review the Privacy Policy to make sure it meets your needs.

8) Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by e-mailing us through our email contact form and choose the Data Controller as recipient.
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

9) Contact Us
Please e-mail any questions or comments you have about privacy to us here.